Happiness, marginalia, and pink stationery. Greg Barnhisel interviews Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil on The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a definitive collection of one of America’s most significant poets.
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PRoB presents its fourth entry in our Summer Non-Beach Read Club’s consideration of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans as Greg Barnhisel considers the making of the Modernist archive.
“I have never quite managed to shake off the clammy, intensely claustrophobic sensation produced by the final pages of ‘The Girls of Slender Means.'”
“Quite a popular writer in her own time, and in ours still remembered vaguely as having written ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,’ she is also a writer’s writer.”
A Photo Essay on Kafka and the Kafkaesque in Prague
The second installment in PRoB’s Summer Non-Beach Read Book Club consideration of Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans.”
“Biography is essential in what counts as ‘literature’ and how people are taught to read it. And like literature itself, literary biography has evolved.”
“Succinctly, The Great Gatsby has become the representative novel about the American Dream. As we approach New Year’s, however, a different American literary anniversary deserves acknowledgement.”
“Glück’s poetry has often come to be associated with suffering, as it is such a recurrent theme in her numerous collections.”
Walking through Gertude Stein’s biographical and literary legacy with devotion in Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”
